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Why should you use the Workplane Viewer?

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 08 September 2013 0 komentar

Have you ever used the Workplane Viewer? It looks like this:

When you open it, a new window opens and orients itself to the current workplane. This window is the Workplane Viewer.

Revit Wants you to be understand workplanes, and to host things on correct workplanes in the model. Virtually the entire model in Revit is built up on a series of 2D planes. Additionally, being comfortable working in 3D views is an important Revit and BIM skill. This is why you should use the Workplane Viewer...

A few impressive things about the Workplane Viewer:

Can be put on a secondary monitor and it remains open
It respects the Section Box of the currently active 3D view
Auto zooms to the extent of proper sketch elements when in a Sketch Mode
Keeps itself oriented to the current and correct workplane
It reports the currently set workplane in text form in the bar at the top of the window
Triggering Zoom Extents will affect both the current view and the Workplane Viewer

Interestingly, if a horizontal workplane is set (which is typically the case) and you are working in 3D, the Workplane Viewer will be giving you a Top View of the current 3D view - quite useful really.

The extent to which you can edit elements in the Workplane Viewer is dependant on the mode you are currently in. Sketch modes allow you to edit sketch lines in the Viewer. Editing a Family In-place allows you to select and modify extrusions.

It is a bit strange that the Workplane Viewer itself actually allows you to Orbit and use the Viewcube (meaning that you are no longer perpendicular to the current workplane.) To fix this, go to a normal view and use the Set Workplane tool - the Workplane Viewer should now be back in sync with the current workplane.

In some respects, it is like the Replicate Window command, but the Workplane Viewer has a bit more intelligence when it comes to planes, and it is allowed to live on a secondary monitor.

Link to help:

Editing with the Workplane Viewer - WikiHelp

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Get a list of the names of all Reference Planes in a Revit Model

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 26 Februari 2013 0 komentar

WhiteFeet Tools for Revit is a powerful set of add-ins that can make the impossible, possible. I have posted about them before. In this brief post, we look at how you can effectively Schedule the Reference Planes you have in a model.

On the Add-ins Ribbon, choose Utility Tools - Schedule Tools:

Pick Write Category to Excel, then select the Reference Plane category, All Elements in Model:

After you press Write Data, you will get something like this:

You can then sort the Data to find the unnamed versions, and then use the Element ID to select and name those Reference Planes, if you so desire. In our office, an unnamed Reference Plane is fair game for deletion...

Also, some of you may have picked up that you can use this same process to export data from ANY CATEGORY in Revit - including those that you cannot schedule!

Find out how to obtain the Whitefeet software here:
Tools

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